To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised – they don’t see you behind closed doors.
NICOLE KIDMANI’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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Ultimately, you’re left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
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I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
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~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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I like exploring life and its complexities.
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I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.
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I love acting but I don’t like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
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People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we’re all going to die, so how do you want to live?
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I’m willing to fly close to the flame.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
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It’s so bizarre, I’m not scared of snakes or spiders. But I’m scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!
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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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An actor who’s a control freak, that doesn’t work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
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I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
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I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
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